For another perspective, here's the director of the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control.<p>Speaking to CNN, they said that Russia has "an experienced central banker who is making it look like the Russian economy is strong when it's not."<p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/nerd-warriors-treasury-department-sanctions-economic-war-russia" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/nerd-warriors-treasu...</a>